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Welcome to the OPA Centenary Reunion Quiz

For our Centenary, we have produced a Quiz for anyone to have a go. It includes 30 Easy (E), Medium (M) and Hard (H) questions on the earlier schools and is intended to take a while to complete. You may wish to enrol your family Internet experts to assist the searching. Remember search engines can be your friend on some occasions. This quiz is not serious; it is intended for your amusement and information, and is not intended to cause any upset or distress. Apologies for not including questions on the more recent history of the schools.

Rules:
  1. Everyone is welcome to attempt the Quiz, except for the OPA Joint Webmasters (i.e. Quizmaster) who are deemed ineligible. The Quiz ends at midday on the day of the Centenary Reunion. All answers may be found on our website or on Wikipedia or on other related websites, i.e. no personal knowledge will be required and each answer will be documented somewhere on the Internet. The answers will be announced at the Reunion and posted here after the Reunion. Anyone found editing Wikipedia to ensure a correct answer will be disqualified.
  2. If you wish to compete for the Prize, then please email your answers or bring your printed or handwritten answers to the Reunion. Only one submission per person will be allowed. Answers to individual questions will not be accepted.
  3. Please email your answers up to the day before the Centenary Reunion. Previous email submissions may be substituted at the discretion of the Quizmaster up to the day before the Centenary Reunion, but only one submission per person will be allowed. No email will be inspected on the day of the Reunion.
  4. Alternatively, please bring me a printed or handwritten copy of your answers before midday (effectively, before the AGM) at the Centenary Reunion. Previous submissions may be substituted at the discretion of the Quizmaster, but only before midday at the Reunion. Marks may be deducted for poor handwriting...
  5. The winner will be that person attending the Centenary Reunion who has delivered or emailed me the highest number of correct answers. A tie-break question may be used to separate people with equal highest scores. There will be a modest (drinkable) prize awarded to the Winner at the Reunion.
  6. There will be honorable mentions recorded for the highest score by those people unable to attend the Reunion, but no prizes will be awarded for this category even if their score is highest.
  7. The Quizmaster's decision will be final in all matters, even when he is wrong.

Slough Secondary School (1912-1936)

  • Q01: What is the name of the street where SSS stood?
  • Q02: Who was the former OPA centenarian who attended the first day of school in 1912?
  • Q03: What was the first known 'house' name used at SSS?
  • Q04: The earliest SSS photographs date from which year?
  • Q05: Who was the first headmaster, who introduced the term "Old Paludian" one hundred years ago?
  • Q06: Samuel Augustus Stewart Thomas (8 Mar 1899 - 19 July 1916) is generally credited as the earliest WW1 casualty from SSS old boys. While at SSS, he lived with his family in Langley. Which road?
  • Q07: Most speech days were held in the School Hall. In 1935, however, it was held offsite in Slough - where?
  • Q08: What is the name of the junior school which shared the same site as SSS?
  • Q09: During WW2, the former SSS premises were used to house a school evacuated from London. Which school? (including its London location please)
  • Q10: Apart from SSS, SGS and SHS, what other secondary school started in the former SSS premises? (Specifically, its original name please)

Slough Grammar School

  • Q11: What is the name of the road where SGS stood?
  • Q12: The Old Paludians Association (Boys Section) reformed after the war as Old Paludians Ltd. Under which team name does they play football nowadays?
  • Q13: Displaying an extraordinary knowledge of clockwork panoramic camera motors, which pair of students appears twice on the same School photo, and in which year?
  • Q14: Dr WRV Long was Head (1952-1966); Mr GH Painter was Head (1966-1982, UGS 1982-1988). When not Head, what main subjects did each of them teach?
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  • Q20: Dr Jeremy Black (1951-2004) was a noted classicist and old boy. Which area of Classics was his academic specialisation?

Slough High School

  • Q21: What is the name of the lane where SHS stood?
  • Q22: Some SHS students had passed vocational entrance to the School. For which future profession?
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  • Q29: What did the SHS site host after the demise of SHS?
  • Q30: At the end of SHS, many of the teaching staff transferred to UGS and later SGS. Who was the last SHS teacher working at SGS?